Our daughter has been collecting signatures, so we wanted to see some of the stars, and Lara thought it would be a good idea to bring L3-G0. I wasn't so sure, but she had the idea for the red shirt. Of course we put off actually making the costume 'til the last minute. Anyway it turned out pretty fun.

Artoo wasn't the only cosplayer there:
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R2-D2 with Star Trek Cosplay

Of course, there were scarier things than Klingons:
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Borg with Artoo Red Shirt

Artoo did get to meet some of the Star Trek talent. Some of them left early and missed him, but Michael Dorn, Marina Sirtis, Denise Crosby and John De Lancie all got a chance to say hi to him. They also had some talks that were pretty enjoyable with funny anecdotes, their an entertaining crowd. (I guess that's their job.)

Marina was really funny. She saw R2 in his red shirt and whipped out her phone... a Blackberry... asking if she could tweet a picture. There was lots of tapping and phone wrangling, but finally she held it out to take a picture... Whoops, another one... And another. Finally she apparently has a picture and taps a bunch more (all the while insisting she loves her Blackberry). Viola, she announces that she's done it and posted the pix to twitter.

Curious about this 5 minute picture taking of course I check twitter when we move on:

I know she likes that phone, but maybe she wants one with a better camera, just sayin'. Anyway, thanks a ton to Marina for providing us with such a fun story and memories.

Another hilarious bit was when the talent first arrived. Apparently they had been told to bring photos, but Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes apparently hadn't been listening. Marina was like "men". Brent was griping and grouching, digging around his bag and pulled out the only shot he could find, all bent and torn, turning around and asking the fans if they'd buy that. (Someone did scrounge up some stills for them eventually.)

In short, we had as much fun as Lara predicted, and he was better received than I expected, considering that we had the wrong genre. I guess we're all just geeks.